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UNiTEn STATES PATENT Orrrcn.

GATHARINE A. GRISWOLD, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No 291,333, cated Januaty1, 1884,

Application filed Maroh 21, 1883. (Nomodelo To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, CATHARINE A. GRIs- WOLD, of the city, county, andState of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement inCorsets, of which the following is a specification, reference being hadto the accompanying drawing, forming part of the same, it being aperspective View of the inside of a corset containing my improvement.

My invention consists in a corset having breast-pockets adapted to holdpads in place by means of eyelets and lacings at the top, 8X, tendingfrom the back to the front portions of the pockets, as hereinafter setforth.

To form each pocket, I take a piece of suitable fabric, a, correspondingin dimensions to the bust or breast-swell a of the corset, and sew itaround its sides and bottom edges to the insideof the corset,immediately over the breast-swells, leaving the upper edge, d, un-

attached. In this upper edge I insert eyelets .0, and providecorresponding eyelets in the body of the corset, near its upper edge,and into the eyelets insert a lacing-cord, d, which extends from theback to the front portions of the pocket, as shown. There is thus formeda pocket, in which is placed a breast-pad. e, of any desired material,inclosed in a cloth en- .velope or case of the proper dimensions. Thepocket, with its lacings, serves to hold the pad securely in place, andthe pad may be readily inserted in it or removed from it. If preferred.the said pocket may be madeby means of a lining, cut into separatepieces, conforming in shape with the pieces constituting the frontportion of the corset. Such a lining is shown in the shading.

The described pocket, provided with the eyelets and lacing ends forclosing the upper end of the pocket after the pad is inserted, is ofcourse formed in each half of the corset.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to

